The younger Drusus then commanded the Roman legions in the province of Illyricum, and by his mediation a peace was concluded between Arminius and Maroboduus, by the terms of which it is evident that the latter must have renounced his ambitious schemes against the freedom of the other German tribes.

Victorious advance of Drusus in Germany.

Last German campaign and death of Drusus.

His Annals are comprised in one hundred and forty-two books, extending from the foundation of the city to the death of Drusus, 9 B.C., of which only thirty-five have come down to us,an impressive commentary on the vandalism of the Middle Ages and the ignorance of the monks who could not preserve so great a treasure.

Either Drusus thought he was guiding the Senate into a larger policy when he was himself merely the Senate's puppet, and this his son's career makes probable, or he was cynically dishonest and unscrupulous.

Drusus proposed to plant twelve, each of 3,000 citizens.

With virtuous self-denial Drusus washed his hands of all such patronage.

SATURNINUS AND DRUSUS.

It is clear from the episode of Drusus that there was as wide a breach between Italian capitalists and cultivators, as there had been between Roman occupiers and the first clamourers for agrarian laws.

And now their last friend, this second Scipio, Drusus, had been struck down by the same cowardly hands.

They were more numerous, they were hardier than their tyrants; and if not so well organized, still by their union with Drusus they were in some sort welded together, and now or never was the time to strike.

For the friends of Drusus were marked men.

Let them remain passive, and either individual Italians would perish by the dagger which had slain Drusus, or individual communities by the sentence of the Senate which had exterminated Fregellae.

[Sejanus brought false accusation also against Drusus, through the medium of his wife.

Now when Tiberius without discussion sent Drusus to Rome, Sejanus, fearing that his position might be injured, persuaded Cassius to busy himself against him.

After exalting Sejanus to a high pinnacle of glory and making him a member of his family by the alliance with Julia, daughter of Drusus, Tiberius later killed him.

His wife Apicata was not condemned, to be sure, but on learning that her children were dead and after seeing their bodies on the Stairs she withdrew and composed a statement regarding the death of Drusus, directed against Livilla, the latter's wife, who had been the cause of a quarrel between herself and her husband, resulting in their separation.

He had commanded Macro,or so some say,if there should be any uprising to bring Drusus before the senate and the people and appoint him emperor.

[-21-] The next move of Tiberius was to approach the capital and sojourn in its environs; he did not, however, go within the walls, although he was but thirty stades distant, so that he bestowed in marriage the remaining daughters of Germanicus and also Julia, the daughter of Drusus.

All this covered the emperor with disgrace, and his connection with the death of Drusus and Agrippina gave him a reputation for cruelty.

He had, indeed, a descendant in the person of Tiberius, but him he disregarded both on account of age (he was a mere child as yet) and on account of the prevailing suspicion that this boy was not the son of Drusus.

The very moment a certain youth who declared he was Drusus appeared in the region of Greece and Ionia, the cities both received him enthusiastically and supported his cause.

Indeed, he took all that Drusus had uttered in distress and misfortune, and this, too, he sent in to the senate.

Studies in the reign of Tiberius; some imperial virtues of Tiberius and Drusus Julius Caesar.

Studies in the reign of Tiberius; some imperial virtues of Tiberius and Drusus Julius Caesar.